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What's Next for Facebook and Social Media? 5 Trends to Watch After the IPO

Ryan Holmes | Posted 07.17.2012 | Technology
Read More: Social Media, Ipo, Mobile, Facebook IPO, Mark Zuckerberg, Freemium, Future, Facebook, Privacy, Social Media Business, Social Media Advertising, Social Media Networks, Technology News
Ryan Holmes

The Facebook IPO is a watershed moment in social media. It leaves no doubt that social networks are a true cultural and financial force. Social media is here to stay. It's not a fad. And it's huge business. The big question is what's next.

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Report: Spotify Inks U.S. Deal with World's Largest Record Label

Eliot Van Buskirk | Posted 08.14.2011 | Technology
Read More: Freemium, Universal Music Group, Umg, Spotify, Freemium Music, Technology News
Eliot Van Buskirk

Spotify has reportedly made a deal with Universal Music Group, the behemoth among record labels, to distribute its music online in the United States.

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Thinking "Inside" the Box: How Freeloaders Can Make You a Load of Cash

Tom Grasty | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Knight News Challenge, Evernote, Stroome, Linkedin, Community, Skype, Online Video, Participitory Media, Editing, Technology, User Generated Content, Business Model, Mailchimp, Freemium, Technology News
Tom Grasty

As an internet entrepreneur, the question I'm asked most often is this: "How are you going to make money?" I tell them the plan isn't to charge for our service, and what happens next never fails.

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Should Internet Content Be Free? The Best Model to Save Newspapers, Books, and Music in the Digital Age

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Limited Copyright, Newspapers, Free Content, Copyright, Content, Artistic Collaboration, Perpetual Copyright, Copyright Extension, Chris Anderson, "Free: The Future of a Radical Price, Intellectual Property, Music, Creative Commons, Lawrence Lessig, Cross-Subsidies, Publishing Industry, Free Economy, Digital Economy, Digital, Future of the Internet, Google, Wikipedia, Public Domain, Paid Content, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Microsoft, Books, Business Models for Digital Content, Thomas Jefferson, Death of Newspapers, Newspaper Industry, Mark Helprin, Linux, Moore's Law, Espresso Book Machine, Art, Piracy, " "Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto, Advertising, Digital Age, Music Industry, Freemium, " Free, Media News
Anis Shivani

How can we retain, even enhance, creativity in the digital age, taking advantage of near-zero costs of redistribution? Two recent books consider the question.

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The Economist Eats the WSJ's Lunch

Charles Warner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: The Economist, New York Times, Freemium, WSJ.Com, Wsj, Rupert Murdoch Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, Folio, Media News
Charles Warner

The Economist makes a lot of money and the WSJ loses a lot of money, even though they both have a freemium business model for their Web offering. Why?

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